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  • About Us
    • Who we are >
      • Staff
      • Officers, Executive Board and Trustees
      • Committees
    • OPEIU International
    • Our partners
    • Contact us
  • Need a Union?
    • Need a Union?
    • Non-Profit Employees
  • For Members
    • COVID-19 Resources
    • Benefits
    • Your Employee Rights >
      • Rights of Union Members
      • The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
      • Health laws
      • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
      • Disciplines + Terminations >
        • Just Cause
    • Find my shop steward or staff representative
    • Kaiser Permanente >
      • 2023 KP Tentative Agreement
    • AFL-CIO
    • Forms
    • Spotlight
  • For Shop Stewards
    • Your role >
      • Sign up + welcome new members
      • Grievances >
        • Just Cause
    • Your rights
    • Trainings
    • Resource Library
    • What's Right-to-Work?
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YOUR CART

Committees

Communications
Tammi Spence, Chair
  • Engages OPEIU Local 2 members through various communications platforms to inform membership and encourage activism.
  • Publicizes membership issues, campaigns and events.​
Community Services
Juanita Bowman, Chair
  • Educates members on, and connect them to, services provided by the Metro Council's Community Services Agency. The CSA provides emergency assistance for families facing economic crisis, layoff preparation and support including resumé preparation and job search assistance.
  • Helps to ensure the CSA's future existence, which survives through the generous contributions of unions and their members. (CSA's charitable designation number is 8253.) 
Education
Tammi Spence, Chair
  • Assists in establishing orientation and education programs for new members, helps plan shop stewards' training, develops methods of stimulating membership participation in trade union educational programs.
  • Provides membership with information aimed at making them better informed trade unionists.
  • Helps with the development of union publications.
Pride Caucus
Jeff Wheeler, Chair​​
  • Educates OPEIU Local 2 leaders, stewards, activists and members about the issues impacting LGBTQIA+ workers.
  • Incorporates LGBTQIA+ inclusive language in all shop contracts.
  • Builds relationships with LGBTQIA+ community groups and labor organizations.
  • Engages in LGBTQIA+ related community service activities.
Political Education (PEP)
Michael Spiller, Chair
  • Provides membership with information pertaining to candidates and issues in primary and general election campaigns.
  • Assists in the development of a program for raising voluntary funds for use in election campaigns and in providing personnel for campaigns and election day activities.
  • Assists the Local regarding political candidates and endorsements.
Social Events
​
Michael Spiller, Chair

​Schedules, plans and sponsors social activities.
Social Justice
James Ward Morrow, Chair
Sarah Levesque, Co-Chair
  • Mobilizes Local 2 members to become active participants in the struggle for justice and equality.
  • Develops focus issues that affect Local 2 members, plan actions and events, and coordinate partnerships with local coalitions. 
Women's
Yvonne Ellis, 
Chair
  • ​Invests in women for leadership roles now and in the future of women in unionism.

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